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‘Národní krematoria.‘ Idea a realizace spalování mrtvol v meziválečném Československu

The chapter analyzes building of crematoria in Czechoslovakia with an emphasis on the interwar period. It shows various national, local and social aspects of competition between towns and societies for these symbols of progress.…

Topics: Historical Sociology

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Gender and entrepreneurial intentions in a transition economy context: case of the Czech Republic

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Love Will Keep Us Apart? Understanding Living Apart Together Partnerships in the Post-state-socialist Czech Republic

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Gender & Sociology

Prostupné bydlení: Evaluace

Topics: Housing, Social Policy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Pathways to professionalism? Quality improvement, care pathways, and the interplay of standardization and clinical autonomy

Care pathways are a prominent feature of efforts to improve healthcare quality, outcomes and accountability, but sociological studies of pathways often find professional resistance to standardisation. This qualitative study examined the adoption and adaptation of a novel pathway as part of a randomised controlled trial in an unusually complex, non‐linear field – emergency general surgery – by teams of surgeons and physicians in six theoretically sampled sites in the UK. We find near‐universal receptivi…

Topics: Care, Public Administration, Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

A qualitative study of participants' views on re-consent in a longitudinal biobank

AbstractBACKGROUND:Biomedical research increasingly relies on long-term studies involving use and re-use of biological samples and data stored in large repositories or "biobanks" over lengthy periods, often raising questions about whether and when a re-consenting process should be activated. We sought to investigate the views on re-consent of participants in a longitudinal biobank.METHODS:We conducted a qualitative study involving interviews with 24 people who were participating in a longitudinal biobank. Thei…

Topics: Care, Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Junior doctors’ views on reporting concerns about patient safety: a qualitative study

AbstractBACKGROUND:Enabling healthcare staff to report concerns is critical for improving patient safety. Junior doctors are one of the groups least likely to engage in incident reporting. This matters both for the present and for the future, as many will eventually be in leadership positions. Little is known about junior doctors' attitudes towards formally reporting concerns.AIMS:To explore the attitudes and barriers to junior doctors formally reporting concerns about patient safety to the organisations in wh…

Topics: Care, Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Gender, In(equity), and the Scientific Workforce

Gender hierarchies in the scientific workforce reflect and reinforce relations of status and power in societies. Concentrating on the United States and European Union, this chapter reveals deep and persistent gender disparities in participation by scientific field, and in performance, recognition, and rewards in scientific careers. Explanations of these disparities lie within intersecting institutional influences including family/households, and in the culture, practices, and organizational structures of sci…

Topics: Gender, Sociology of Sciences, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Návratnost terciárního vzdělávání v růstu kompetencí a platu: mezinárodní srovnání

This paper is pursuing two main objectives. Firstly, to map the impact of higher education on shaping literacy and numeracy cognitive competencies. And secondly, to compare the financial returns to tertiary bachelor and master education and cognitive skills acquired at this level of education among 17 countries participating in the international survey of adult skills PIAAC (2011 – 2012). Particular emphasis is placed on assessing the returns to various fields of study. For the purpose of international compa…

Topics: Economy, Wages and Incomes, Education

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Sociální stratifikace

Why don’t Eastern Europeans Work Part-time?

This article explores the development of part-time employment in Central and Eastern Europe compared to Western Europe. The analysis of panel data reveals the role of part-time work determinants on the macro level and their different effects on part-time employment in the two groups of countries. The large set of determinants includes business cycle, labour market institutions and structural factors. The results indicate that part-time employment in the East and the West is influenced by different, mostly stru…

Topics: Economy

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Meziválečné sociologické výzkumy pražské chudiny

The article describes and analyses the first two sociological studies on the poor in Prague, which took place in the 1920s and 1930s. The first study was initiated by Alice Masaryk in the American tradition of “social surveys”, and the second was undertaken by Otakar Machotka, a member of the Prague sociological school, using more modern means. The author presents the background, the greater contexts, practical implementation and the results of both studies, and highlights the fact that their implementatio…

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Political Knowledge in the Czech Republic

About this bookThis book examines the origins, nature, and impact of different facets of political knowledge in the Czech Republic between 1967 and 2014. The central argument presented in this book is that evaluating citizens on the basis of objective, or factual, knowledge alone makes little sense. What citizens know about politics comes from a variety of sources that are complementary. This is the first detailed study of how much Czechs know about politics, and why it matters. Here are some of the key fin…

Topics: Politics and Political Attitudes

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Values and Politics

Kruh sociologické racionality: pozice sociologa v hermeneutické perspektivě

Cílem článku je aplikovat pojem hermeneutického kruhu na pozici sociologa. Hermeneutický problém v sociologii je analyzován na oblasti výzkumu sociálního jednání a s ohledem na otázku, jak může sociologické rozumění postihovat význam přisuzovaný jednání samotnými aktéry. Ačkoli existuje několik významných teoretiků, kteří ideu hermeneutiky přenesli do sociologie, žádný z nich se detailně nezabýval tématem hermeneutického kruhu. V článku je analýza hermeneutického …

Topics: Historical Sociology, Sociological Theory

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Public Opinion Research Centre

Sociological Research Conducted on the Poor in Interwar Prague

Topics: History of Sociology

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Evangelické kostely a modlitebny Těšínského Slezska – prolegomena k uměleckohistorické topografii

The chapter provides historical background to the art history of the Protestant churches of Czech Silesia, which has not existed yet. The author analyzes the specifics of building and further development of these churches and other religious buildings, and summarizes existing art-historical analyzes.…

Topics: Religion and religiosity

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Economic and Religious Studies

Proč ženy pečují? Gender a neformální péče o seniory

Based on qualitative research of women that cared in the past or care now for their frail elderly mothers, this article aims to describe and explain some of the factors leading to the predominance of women in informal care for the elderly. The article builds on Sandra Harding’s and Joan W. Scott’s concept of gender. Their concept defines gender as a category operating at multiple interconnected levels. Based on the analysis of interviews with biographical components, we show the impact of cultural and stru…

Topics: Gender, Care

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

Gender balance power map

The qualitative study is focused on the issue of equal access of women (and men) into managerial and decision-making positions in a social enterprise and conventional one in the Czech Republic. The results of the study reflect a lack of focus on gender equality, low sensitivity to gender based discrimination, recurrence of gender stereotypes and the lack of internal policies (formal procedures) to promote women in leadership positions in the surveyed firms.…

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Gender a rovnováha moci

The qualitative study is focused on the issue of equal access of women (and men) into managerial and decision-making positions in a social enterprise and conventional one in the Czech Republic. The results of the study reflect a lack of focus on gender equality, low sensitivity to gender based discrimination, recurrence of gender stereotypes and the lack of internal policies (formal procedures) to promote women in leadership positions in the surveyed firms.…

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Gender a energetika

Energy is not merely a technological field, it also influences and is influenced by the wider social context. From various perspectives energy impacts the lives of people and it shapes people, not just those who work in the field of energy, in various ways. This publication focuses specifically on how these processes operate from the perspective of gender equality. Gender inequality in the field of energy is not yet a subject much addressed in the Czech Republic: it is not the subject of research surveys, it d…

Topics: Gender

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Vztah obyvatel k přírodě a její ochraně. Sociologická perspektiva

The first part of the study is focused on how environmental issues are approached by sociology and social sciences and also deals with nature conservation in the Czech Republic - its developments, institution and actors. The second part presents the results of empirical surveys with the main emphasis on the survey carried out in 2016 focused on opinions, attitudes and behaviour of that part of population that is interested in nature conservation and environment professionally or in their leisure and actively p…

Topics: Environment

Publication Type: Other Publication

Department: Local and regional studies

Social bias within the institution of hired domestic care: global interactions and migration

Topics: Gender, Globalization, Care

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Gender & Sociology

家庭护理雇佣制度的僵局

Topics: Gender, Globalization

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Czech Women’s NGOs: Women’s Voices and Claims in the Public Sphere

Topics: Gender, Care

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Gender & Sociology

Vnitřní periferie v Česku: Multidimenzionalita sociálního vyloučení ve venkovských oblastech.

The spatial concentration of social disadvantage in rural areas not only poses a risk to social cohesion but also represents a challenge for public policy. This article draws on a multidimensional concept of disadvantage to study spatial aspects of disadvantage in Czech rural areas. Current studies aimed at identifying ‘inner peripheries’ as areas with an increased risk of social exclusion fail to distinguish between different forms of disadvantage. Their methodological approach blends regions struggling w…

Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes, Age and Aging, Public Policy, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

Racism and Christianity as the Symbolic Boundaries toward Immigrants in the ESS Countries

Topics: Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Czech Social Science Data Archive

Publications

‘Národní krematoria.‘ Idea a realizace spalování mrtvol v meziválečném Československu

Gender and entrepreneurial intentions in a transition economy context: case of the Czech Republic

Love Will Keep Us Apart? Understanding Living Apart Together Partnerships in the Post-state-socialist Czech Republic

Prostupné bydlení: Evaluace

Pathways to professionalism? Quality improvement, care pathways, and the interplay of standardization and clinical autonomy

A qualitative study of participants' views on re-consent in a longitudinal biobank

Junior doctors’ views on reporting concerns about patient safety: a qualitative study

Gender, In(equity), and the Scientific Workforce

Návratnost terciárního vzdělávání v růstu kompetencí a platu: mezinárodní srovnání

Why don’t Eastern Europeans Work Part-time?

Meziválečné sociologické výzkumy pražské chudiny

Political Knowledge in the Czech Republic

Kruh sociologické racionality: pozice sociologa v hermeneutické perspektivě

Sociological Research Conducted on the Poor in Interwar Prague

Evangelické kostely a modlitebny Těšínského Slezska – prolegomena k uměleckohistorické topografii

Proč ženy pečují? Gender a neformální péče o seniory

Gender balance power map

Gender a rovnováha moci

Gender a energetika

Vztah obyvatel k přírodě a její ochraně. Sociologická perspektiva

Social bias within the institution of hired domestic care: global interactions and migration

家庭护理雇佣制度的僵局

Czech Women’s NGOs: Women’s Voices and Claims in the Public Sphere

Vnitřní periferie v Česku: Multidimenzionalita sociálního vyloučení ve venkovských oblastech.

Racism and Christianity as the Symbolic Boundaries toward Immigrants in the ESS Countries

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